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Apple Reports Record Results — 47.8 Million iPhones Sold; 22.9 Million iPads Sold — Apple® today announced financial results for its 13-week fiscal 2013 first quarter ended December 29, 2012. The Company posted record quarterly revenue of $54.5 billion and record quarterly net profit …

Apple's Profits Are Flat, and Stock Drops — Apple on Wednesday reported the kind of quarter most big companies would envy, posting a profit of $13.1 billion and selling 28 percent more iPhones and 48 percent more iPads, its two biggest products. — Its stock sank 11 percent. — What is going on?

About that post-PC era...Steve Jobs was right — Apple's earnings came out today, and amidst the flood of instant analysis and impassioned claims from Apple fans and foes alike, one thing clearly stood out. — Steve Jobs was right. The post-PC era is here.

In his own words: Tim Cook on Apple earnings and more — Sequentially we increased over 70 percent from the September quarter, which was 3.5 times the market, and so we could not be happier with that. In terms of geographic distribution, we saw our highest growth in China, and it was into the triple digits.

Google Creating Wireless Network, But For What? — Google is trying to create an experimental wireless network covering its Mountain View, Calif., headquarters, a move that some analysts say could portend the creation of dense and superfast Google wireless networks in other locations …

Microsoft Earnings Big on Windows 8 and SuperBowl Strategy — On the eve of Microsoft's possibly most significant earnings reports in recent history, eyes are fixed are on the Redmond giant. The recent announcement of pricing and availability of their tablet product - the Surface Pro is no coincidence …

Imagining a 5-inch iPhone — Never mind rumors of an awkwardly named 4.8-inch “iPhone Math”, the concept of a much larger iPhone has been floating about ever since the realities of early LTE chipsets — and the batteries that came with them — forced Android and Windows-based competitors to break the size barrier.

Google Launches Streamlined Image Search — Like how Google Image Search works on a tablet? Good news, then. That simplified experience is coming to Google Images on the desktop. — Out With The Old — Currently, viewing an image through Google Image Search is a multistep process.

Google Tells Cops to Get Warrants for User E-Mail, Cloud Data — Google demands probable-cause, court-issued warrants to divulge the contents of Gmail and other cloud-stored documents to authorities in the United States — a startling revelation Wednesday that runs counter to federal law that does not always demand warrants.

Samsung Gets Review of Apple Victory in U.S. Trade Fight — Samsung Electronics Co. (005930), the world's largest smartphone producer, persuaded a U.S. trade agency to review a preliminary ruling that more than a dozen models of its mobile phones copied Apple Inc. (AAPL)'s patented features.

Restaurants Turn Camera Shy — When it comes to people taking photographs of their meals, the chef David Bouley has seen it all. There are the foreign tourists who, despite their big cameras, tend to be very discreet. There are those who use a flash and annoy everyone around them.